Hypertext Webster Gateway: "Sloe"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Sloe \Sloe\, n. [OE. slo, AS. sl[=a]; akin to D. slee, G.
schlehe, OHG. sl$ha, Dan. slaaen, Sw. sl?n, perhaps
originally, that which blunts the teeth, or sets them on edge
(cf. {Slow}); cf. Lith. sliwa a plum, Russ. sliva.] (Bot.)
A small, bitter, wild European plum, the fruit of the
blackthorn ({Prunus spinosa}); also, the tree itself.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
sloe
n 1: wild plum of northeastern United States having dark purple
fruits with yellow flesh [syn: {Allegheny plum}, {Alleghany
plum}, {Prunus alleghaniensis}]
2: a thorny Eurasian bush with plumlike fruits [syn: {blackthorn},
{Prunus spinosa}]
3: small sour dark purple fruit of especially the Allegheny
plum bush
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